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Introducing Automated Text Recognition

Wiley Digital Archives is the only archival program in the library market offering Automated Text Recognition (ATR), an AI that turns handwriting into typeset. ATR makes the unique handwritten documents in our archives easy to discover, explore, and analyze with our platform digital humanities tools.

  • The Bijouga or Bissagos Islands, W. Africa. Edward Stallibrass, Journal Manuscripts, n.d. Source: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

    Before ATR

    This manuscript page can only be found via top-level metadata.

    The text isn’t searchable.

    It can only be analyzed by reading it – which script makes taxing.

  • Typeset version post ATR. Original document on http://WDAgo.com/s/c465db04

    After ATR

    This page has been converted into typeset.

    All of the text is searchable.

    It can be analyzed with textual analysis tools.

Explore seven centuries of manuscripts

Thanks to ATR, a breakthrough machine learning feature, hundreds of thousands of  handwritten records covering seven centuries of History of Science can now be seamlessly searched within, utilized for data analysis, quoted, and referred to in citations.

  • Improves returns

    ATR has been applied to all WDA archives at no extra cost, enhancing the archives you’re planning to acquire, as well as of those that you acquired in the past, automatically increasing ROI even post sale.

  • Supports institutional objectives

    Powered by ATR, WDA helps put researchers in your institution ahead of the curve.

  • Enables unprecedented research and publishing efficiency

    ATR makes manuscripts fully searchable, available for data analysis, and seamlessly easy to quote and refer to in citations.

  • Solves manuscript comprehension challenges

    Handwriting presents readability issues that ATR solves by converting it into typeset.

  • Powers virtual teaching

    Using ATR to seamlessly incorporate primary sources into the digital classroom makes research work more appealing, accessible, and intuitive for students.

  • Grows and enhances research reach

    With ATR, manuscripts and printed materials approach usability and discoverability parity, allowing more connections and discoveries, and enhancing analysis.

Technology to explore history

Built for research,
teaching and learning

Wiley Digital Archives delivers archival content on an advanced platform purposely designed to power research, support teaching, and foster learning.

The platform is user-friendly, packed with intuitive tools and functionalities to power discovery, analysis, on- and off-platform collaboration, and virtual education.

Users can conduct searches of textual and visual content by word, term, format and date across archives and disciplines. All results are sorted by content type in easy-to-navigate visual galleries.

Datasets and content can be easily downloaded, manipulated and shared by individual users or collaborative teams of researchers and students, with most text translatable into 105 different languages.

Wiley Digital Archive - a platform built for research

Tools to power research, support teaching, and foster learning

The platform is embedded with the most advanced set of digital humanities tools, designed to maximize the value researchers, educators and students derive from primary source content. Functionalities include:

  • Analytics

    Textual analysis tools for concordance, collocation, popularity, relationships and frequency distribution of terms across archives, disciplines and timelines.

  • Geo-tagging

    Geo-tagged maps, even those drawn by hand, can be overlaid with current coordinates and downloaded as geotiff files to use within GIS software suites.

  • Exportable datasets

    Exportable, fielded datasets for charts, tables, statistics from printed or handwritten sources.

  • Translations

    Typeset materials can be downloaded as images or as OCR text and translated into 105 languages.

  • Metadata

    Enhanced metadata to facilitate discovery, citations and references.

What people are saying

  • “I used the typeset transcripts feature, as some of the handwriting was difficult to read. Thanks to the on-screen citations tab, I could keep an ongoing bibliography for my notes.”

    Ann-Marie Richardson

    PhD Candidate AHRC North West Consortium Funded Researcher with The Royal Society

    Lancaster University

  • "The Wiley Digital Archives interface is seamless and has a crisp, clean look. Clutter is a distracting feature of many databases, so it was enjoyable to smoothly browse these archives without running into interruptions, rather focusing on the substance. The content is incredible and can add enormous value to my research work in the history and evolution of healthcare."

    Tommy Flynn

    RN, CPNP-AC | Ph.D. Candidate, Nursing

    Emory University

  • “With the search terms I use, the collocations tool gives me a better sense of what is available in the archives. I’m able to click on a word and quickly be led to other information, to access a larger, macro view, and there can be real value in that.”

    Dr. Catherine Nichols

    Department of Anthropology and Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities

    Loyola University Chicago

  • “The WDA platform is a wonderful resource, bringing together numerous collections and enabling cross-referencing across multiple archives.”

    Mobeen Hussain

    co-Editor in Chief--Doing History in Public

    PhD Candidate, World History--University of Cambridge

  • “The search functions in Wiley Digital Archives are particularly good for the type of research I do. I can cross-reference my current inventories of Livingstone’s mentions of the word “women” very quickly, and the horizontality of the search process enables me to happen upon other works of interest that I might not have found otherwise. The malleability of this search function, in combination with the quality of the Wiley’s OCR, has facilitated fast, comprehensive data access—and underscores the value that these records can bring to the understanding of the socio-cultural makeup of exploration.“

    Dr. Kathryn Simpson

    Lecturer

    University of Glasgow

  • “Wiley Digital Archives are always available, so there are no time limitations. Just as important, it opens the access to Society Archives to independent scholars or researchers at schools that don’t have the funding for extensive travel.”

    Sarah M. Pickman

    Ph.D. Candidate—History of Science and Medicine Program

    Yale University

  • “The RAI’s archive is the unique repository of Arthur Bernard Deacon’s original reproductions, which have been included by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register in 2013.”

    Jacopo Baron

    PhD Candidate Doctoral School of Social Anthropology and Ethnology

    EHESS of Paris

  • “Wiley Digital Archives presents extremely robust features and tools for users. The dense archival collections are highly navigable with rich metadata and advanced filtering functionality. The range of exploration and analysis tools present users with innovative ways to explore within—and across—archives and collections.”

    Maria Smith

    Center for Research Libraries

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